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"The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent?

To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience."

Alexander Hamilton

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"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents,

when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,

when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands,

then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state,

and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution."

Thomas Jefferson

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